Customer Project Tendering Technical Principle Engineer

Missions

As part of a Project Tendering team:


* Act as the leader of the technical content of the Tender, and be the single point of contact regarding all Tender technical topics;


* Make sure customer technical requirements of the RFQ are taken into account (in terms of performance, quality, costs and time) and technical deviation are identified;


* Lead technical coordination of all Tender stakeholders and propose the best split of scope between each involved entities;


* Challenge Opportunity team in order to reduce the technical risks and optimized the technical solutions (lean scoping, secured design, competitive offer...);


* Work closely with the customers to clarify its technical needs; and can take part of the negociation of technical parts with final customer.

Scope and Environment


* Part of a customer project execution/application center;


* Tendering technical teams located spread among one or several sites/countries, requiring international collaboration with other functional teams/stakeholders.

Key Activities and Responsibilities

Technical Offer:


* Gather technical inputs and quotes from all tendering stakholders (Factories, Logistic Centers, internal entities & sub-contractors);


* Build the technical proposal (technical specifications, costs breakdown between packages, engineering, technical coordination hours, etc...), by re-using proven architectures and technical solutions to meet specific multi-package customer needs;


* Be accountable of the complete technical part of the offer: technical feasability and committment (through design reviews), cost effectiveness, engineering setup, risk mitigation;


* Master the following aspects of the offer: technical proposal, suppliers technical offer specification & validation, all contractual aspects related to the technical scope, technical risk mitigation; new opportunities identification, competitive environment.

Technical coordination of Tender stakeholders:


* Contribute to Tender internal strategy with Opportunity Pursuit Leader (OPL) & Tender Manager (TM)


* Lead & Coordinate all technical aspects with Sales, OPL & TM and other technical roles who take care of part of the technical scope of the tender;


* Ensure compliance of the Technical proposal with Customer RFQs and/or adequate proposal of technical deviations in line with Bid strategy;


* Act as a single point of contact for all tender stakeholders regarding the technical content of the opportunity; -Ensure proper technical transfer from the tendering phase to the execution teams.

Risk & Opportunity management, Change management, Alert:


* Perform gap analysis and lean scoping between customer needs and reference architectures and Schneider Electric products, then adapt the offer to fulfil the customer's key decision criteria (functions, performance, budget ...).


* Support the Sales and Tendering teams, from technical perspective, during the Tend...